Barbary corsairs raid the Mediterranean
1500–1830* · Event
Ottoman-backed corsairs from Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli prey on Christian shipping and enslave coastal Europeans for centuries.
On these timelines: North Africa, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Slavery & Abolition, Master
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